BCT 商务汉语考试 · Business Chinese Test
BCT speaking: a business Chinese pronunciation check
BCT (Oral) is a computer-based speaking test that builds its questions around you — your job, your experience, your duties — and adjusts as you answer. There is no fixed read-aloud part to rehearse. What you can check before the test is how clearly you say the sentences you will need at work.
- ✓10 original workplace sentences: calls, meetings, contracts, prices, email
- ✓Every syllable scored for tone and sounds
- ✓The tones and sounds that cost you the most
- ✓Free, in the browser, no account
The BCT tests, and what this check covers
| Test | What it tests | Format | Read-aloud in the test? |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCT (A) | listening 30 · reading 30 · writing 10 | about 70 min | —(no speaking part) |
| BCT (B) | business Chinese for intermediate and advanced learners | — | —(see the organiser) |
| BCT (Oral) | spoken tasks generated for each candidate | internet-based, adaptive | —(no fixed task list published) |
BCT (Oral) is semi-adaptive: the system picks questions from your job category, work experience, post, duties and interests, and makes them harder or easier as you go.
What this page does: a pronunciation check on business sentences, scored syllable by syllable.
What it does not do: it is not a BCT mock. BCT (Oral) questions are open answers chosen for each candidate; our scorer only scores text you read aloud.
Check your business Chinese pronunciation
Read each sentence aloud once. Switch pinyin off if you can read the characters.
Before you start
Find a quiet place and allow the microphone. Each row is one recording: press the button, read, press it again. The clock only runs while you record, so scoring pauses do not count against you.
- Part 1 of 1 · Read workplace sentences
This is not a BCT score or level and does not predict one. It shows how clearly your tones and sounds came out on these sentences, as a range, and which ones to practise.
How the sentences were written
- Ten original sentences for everyday business situations: introductions, phone calls, meetings, contracts, prices, deliveries, email.
- Standard Mainland pronunciation, the reference our scorer uses.
BCT speaking questions
What is BCT (Oral)?
The speaking test of the Business Chinese Test series. It is taken online, the system talks to you, and its questions are built from your job, experience and interests and adapt to your answers.
Does BCT (A) have a speaking part?
No. The BCT (A) sample paper has listening, reading and writing only. Speaking is tested in BCT (Oral), a separate test.
Why is this not a mock test?
Because BCT (Oral) has no published fixed tasks to copy, and its answers are free speech that our scorer cannot judge. A pronunciation check is the honest thing we can offer.
Sources
- Chinese Testing International — BCT brochure (PDF)
- BCT (A) sample paper (PDF, LSE Confucius Institute for Business)
Format checked 10 November 2026. Independent practice from TonePerfect. Not affiliated with Chinese Testing International; not an official mock.